Asif Kapadia Quotes

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

Asif Kapadia

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• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

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• The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

  

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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

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• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

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• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

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• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  

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• As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

  

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• But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

  

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• That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

  

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• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  

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• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

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• The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

  

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• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  

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• Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?

  

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• The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos.

  

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• I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

  

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• God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

  

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• 'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'

  

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• I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

  

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  

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• Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Lonely